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Activist. Lived Experience Lead. Consultant LXP. Psychology Grad. Integrative Counsellor. Sweary Leftist. 🏳️‍🌈

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@HoppyPelican

Hollie

5 years

STOP the toxic rhetoric of: ‘You can’t be suicidal if you’re...’ Well kempt/wearing make-up Socialising Employed Have a happy home life Still have interests/passions Seem happy Financially stable The list goes on. This bullshit is silencing. This bullshit kills people.

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Hollie

4 years

WHY. ARE. WE. NOT. GIVEN. EXPLICIT. INFORMATION. WHEN. STARTING. ANY. MEDICATION. ON. WHAT. WITHDRAWAL. WILL. BE. LIKE. IF. WE. DECIDE. TO. COME. OFF. THEM. WHY WON’T YOU TELL US?????????

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4 years

Wtf is up with sanitary product adverts? Why aren’t there any depicting the actual horror? Why is no one shown weeping in bed, clutching a hot water bottle with a half eaten mars bar hanging out their mouth? All of this rollerblading and hot pants can fuck off 😒🖕🖕

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Hollie

2 years

Autism assessment waiting list will be around 4 years. I’m tired of people asking ‘what difference will it make?’, ‘why does it matter?’. Knowing that I might have lived my whole life in a world that’s not adapted to my needs and I’ve not been the problem matters to me.

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Hollie

2 years

Devastated and horrified to hear about Beth. I hope she’s found the peace she needed.

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Hollie

1 year

Anyone else regularly get the idea of leaving their life behind, disappearing and living a silent existence somewhere where no one knows them? Of course I do not have the organisational skills nor the bravery to do this but it’s often quite tempting.

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Hollie

2 years

Amazing how people bang on about being kind and supporting each other with our mental health… Until you’re admitted of course and then everyone looks the other way very, very quickly. Because that’s the wrong kind of mad then. That’s no longer palatable and glamourised madness

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2 years

I am discharged. Finally.

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Hollie

2 years

As someone who lives with a diagnosis of BPD, works in mental health and works with people also often diagnosed with the same ‘disorder’, I can assure you that advert is not a ‘one off’. It’s rhetoric I hear relentlessly, even when they know I’m one of ‘them’.

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Hollie

4 years

The worst thing about Christmas is how long you have to keep your bra on for in your own bloody house.

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Hollie

3 years

12/08/21 marked a year free of self-harm. It’s the longest I have ever gone and while I hadn’t been doing it frequently for a long time, it was still part of my life, mainly driven by crushing shame. Now 380 days - it’s weird but good. Therapist got me this.

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6 months

[CW SH] Can we stop using minimising, value laden language around self-harm. Calling a wound ‘superficial’ is minimising. My ‘superficial’ wounds were never superficial to me. What you mean is a wound not requiring suture. Say that if you must describe physical severity

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Hollie

1 year

⚠️Please think about the impact your actions might have on people with lived experience at events. We give you more than enough for often very little reward, please don’t take more than we’re offering.

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Hollie

4 years

Not everyone wants children, not everyone can have children. People who are child free don’t have oodles of free time. Stop reducing people to whether they’ve reproduced and how hard it is if they have. It’s fucking hard for us that haven’t and we haven’t made this choice.

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Hollie

2 years

Just putting it out there, psychiatry has been a ‘thorn in my flesh’ for 15 years. 🖕

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Hollie

4 years

This is it. My last ever dose of lithium for over a decade. I started reducing in July and finally made it.

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4 months

[CW suicide/intrusive thoughts/SH] 🧵 I still think about killing myself most days. “But you could kill yourself” is an ingrained response that brings both comfort and what the fuckery. It’s an answer to the most minor of inconveniences to the real overwhelming distress >

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Hollie

1 year

Has anyone found that since having psychosis your ability to read has disappeared? I read constantly as a child, into my late teens until I had my first episode of psychosis and since then it’s an absolute chore and focus is non-existent. Any tips on making it easier?

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Hollie

4 years

Last week I managed to advocate for a client to the point of rules being changed to accommodate their current needs. Yesterday those needs were acknowledged and funding agreed. I’m pretty fucking proud of that. I’m also a Rottweiler and I will not go away. 💁‍♀️

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Hollie

4 years

Arguing with a group of nurses who are trying to tell me ‘mixed personality disorder’ is a thing. No. That’s lazy fucking shorthand for “we haven’t a clue”.

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Hollie

2 years

How many of my peers have to die before the NHS takes responsibility for their own patients? How many of these fucking environments do I have to go into and see them delivering NOTHING like what they claim to? STOP FUCKING FUNDING IT AND ADEQUATELY INVEST IN YOUR OWN SERVICES.

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Hollie

4 months

Why exactly is a talking therapies service unable to provide support for anxiety if you have BPD dx… a dx where the only recommended treatments are talking therapies? People talk about ‘stigma’, this is active discrimination written into policy and procedure.

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My wife recently asked the local trust for some help with her health anxiety. We both have a diagnosis of BPD and she got a letter back today saying that the Talking Therapy Team cannot help due to her diagnosis. #bpd #mentalhealth #stigma #diagnosisofexclusion

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Hollie

2 years

I cannot stress this enough - stop sending people to out of area placements miles away from their families to be warehoused because the NHS refuses to hold accountability for its own patients. They are unsafe, it’s a model not fit for purpose and it fucking kills people.

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Hollie

4 years

@AdamKM1991 @FlorioGina How was your last period, Adam?

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5 years

I’ve been completely free of Zopiclone for 10 days - 1st time in nearly 3 years. It’s taken 3 months to detox with rapid tapering & I have fucking suffered. Wards in particular need to stop wanging benzos down people’s throats & encouraging dependency. Sedation isn’t treatment.

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2 years

We all know ‘Personality Disorder’ is a fucking awful term but complex emotional needs is no better. It says the same thing - the problem is inherent within me. It’s my fault my personality is like this and it’s my fault my needs are complex. 1>

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Hollie

7 months

At the end of #WorldMentalHealthDay2023 I’d like to remind people that this is a pointless, straw man of a day because we don’t actually mean awareness and acceptance of all mental health problems, we mean the palatable ones where people get to feel helpful and supportive >

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Hollie

10 months

If your training on ‘trauma informed care’, self-harm, suicidality or diagnosis specific trainings aren’t co-produced (properly, not the NHS tick box version of co-pro) and (bare minimum) co-facilitated by someone with lived experience, stop delivering it.

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Hollie

3 years

Never received an email like this before. I was about to delete, then realised title was ‘don’t want to hear about Mother’s Day’. This is the most sensitive & compassionate thing I’ve ever seen from a retailer. It’s usually rammed down my throat. Brilliant work @BloomandWild

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Hollie

5 years

A qualification doesn’t necessarily mean your knowledge is greater than someone else’s; I’ve worked with scores of people that have the right letters after their name but in practice are awful. I may only have a BSc but I’ve got knowledge & understanding many others never will.

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Hollie

4 years

Called GP about chronic pain. GP “How’s your Borderline Personality Disorder?” 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Hollie

6 years

Today my husband and I have been together 9 years and marks 2 months since we got married. I thought those with BPD couldn’t ‘sustain relationships’ 😏🖕

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Hollie

2 years

@DrAdrianJames @Madnotbad60 It’s not enough to take it down, Adrian. This needs disciplinary action. This is dangerous and beyond unforgivable.

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Hollie

10 months

I am yet to meet anyone who loves to dissociate and isn’t terrified by lost time, not being in control of their body, knowing what’s happening around them or not knowing what has happened to them when they aren’t attached to themselves anymore. Punishment for this is abhorrent.

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2 years

To be fair, a psych ward Christmas dinner is better than my mother-in-law’s cooking. Then again, anything from a cafe in Chernobyl would be better than my mother-in-law’s cooking.

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1 year

I would love to experience at least one day where I am not fucking enraged by mental health services and the professionals within them.

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Hollie

5 years

Accurate 👌 why’re we ignoring people that are in distress until it’s too late?

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1 year

I always find it fascinating when professionals attribute people’s recurrent suicidality and self harm to a ‘lack of resilience’. Isn’t it funny how professionals’ ‘resilience’ is never questioned in the same way? 🧐

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Hollie

9 months

Wild that vets never seem to see birds that have plucked themselves bald or animals that have chewed/scratched themselves raw and tell their owners they’re just attention seeking, manipulative or badly behaved. It seems to be seen as a real sign of distress. Humans, nah.

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1 year

I am utterly alone almost all of the time.

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Hollie

8 months

How many of us have to die for this to be different? So many of our peers lost due to systemic neglect & exclusion. Believe suicidal people. @TraumaPhDandMe was kind, compassionate, incredibly knowledgeable & intelligent & was deserving of care & support. Another devastating loss

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Fluctuating levels of despair 🎠🌻🏳️‍🌈

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'Reach out if you're struggling with your mental health', they said. 'Ask for help', they said. I'm exhausted. I have been reaching out (for current episode) since 2019. I am worse now. I am really exhausted and pretty suicidal. I spoke to 111 for 90 minutes. I am alone again.

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7 months

I was made homeless at 19 & 20. I had nothing and was very mentally unwell. It wasn’t a ‘lifestyle choice’ it was a huge fucking trauma. Being street homeless is terrifying for the vast majority of rough sleepers. This opinion, like the Home Secretary, needs to get in the bin.

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There is something deeply wrong with anyone who holds these views. Suella Braverman says rough sleeping is ‘lifestyle choice’

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6 months

Does anyone else’s internal monologue get louder when they’re anxious? Because I’m fucking sick of the sound of myself jabbering away… it’s almost like having commentary hallucinations (which is a fucking ballache by the way) but I know it’s me and it’s in my own head. SHUT UP.

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1 year

NYE is always weird and I struggle with it. It’s a battle of contradiction. ‘Wow, I survived another year’ and ‘ugh, I survived another year’. Whilst I’m mostly glad I’m not dead, I think there will be always a part of me that hopes I will be and managing that’s fucking tiring.

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Hollie

9 days

Hearing Piers Morgan has interviewed the ‘real life Martha’ portrayed in Baby Reindeer fills me with dread. A vulnerable woman exploited for the entertainment of people who became stalkers themselves. What the fuck are we doing as a society?

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Hollie

4 years

“It’s behavioural�� means absolutely nothing. All behaviour is ‘behavioural’. It’s an excuse for ‘professionals’ to stop fucking thinking about what’s going on for people. WHAT’S DRIVING THE BEHAVIOUR IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE QUESTIONING. Stop this piss poor and lazy practice.

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On that note... HOW IN THE FUCK DID MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES get to this point. Nurse talking about high risk patient with bipolar/schizophrenia dx: ‘they’re so unwell.’ Nurse talking about high risk patient with PD dx: ‘sorry but isn’t this behavioural?’

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4 years

We desperately need more crisis houses and respite beds nationally. They play such an important role and are so much more therapeutic than acute admission.

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Hollie

2 years

Can someone explain to me why a nurse/HCA would bother knocking on my door, asking if I’m okay and then when I say no and I’m visibly distressed would just say ‘okay’ and fuck off and leave? Because I’m at a loss to be honest. And that has been my consistent experience today.

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Hollie

11 months

This isn’t news to any of you but I thought I’d reiterate it. I fucking loathe and despise NHS systems that make it IMPOSSIBLE for people in acute distress to receive care. Endless fucking hoops to jump while people suffer. Pointless paper pushing and gatekeeping at what cost? 🖕

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Hollie

5 years

Delivered some training to prison officers today; the most testing group I have ever trained. Apparently people with ‘PD’ dx are “just cunts”, wanting to be put on an ACCT doc for safety is attention seeking & was told trying cutting after I saw someone else’s cuts was “stupid”👍

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4 years

It’s 2020 and I’m being asked to explain why I’m married but elect to use title Ms and keep my ‘Maiden’ name. 1) because I fucking can 2) because I fucking want to and 3) because I’m not fucking chattel, now fuck off.

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Hollie

4 years

It’s perfectly acceptable and totally professional for a 32 year old woman to have a sparkly cat card wallet to keep business cards in, right???????

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3 years

@LucyENichol My husband thinks it’s weird I like to brush my teeth in the shower 🤷‍♀️

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Hollie

4 months

1) yes, I’m autistic & traumatised 2) yes, I’m autistic & traumatised 3) yes, I’m traumatised & autistic 4) sometimes; I’m traumatised & autistic 5) No, I’m autistic 6) yes, I’m traumatised & autistic 7) FOR WHAT!? CONTEXT PLZ? 8) yes, I’m autistic & traumatised. A nonsense

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Introducing the SAPAS, an 8-question screening for personality disorders, in primary care is a recipe for disaster. It's a perfect excuse to offroll, exclude and delegitimise patients in an already overwhelmed system with 1.6 million waiting for mental health services.

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3 years

I have never had a therapist I have trusted or liked this much and it is both wonderful and heartbreaking all at once.

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Hollie

4 years

The loss of a friendship is like a bereavement. I’ve repeated caught myself today thinking ‘I’ll tell them about that’. Except there’s no longer them to tell.

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Hollie

4 years

Don’t know when I’ll next see my therapist in person. Going to try next week over Zoom but it’ll be so weird to have her in my home and not a neutral space. My CPN can now only do phone calls. Thinking of everyone that will have their vital support affected & those without any 😢

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Hollie

10 months

Imagine a world where care-coordinators actually effectively co-ordinated people’s care consistently and getting a decent care-co wasn’t a lottery for people. IMAGINE. 😤

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Hollie

2 years

I’m officially in a textbook! If you’re interested in reading my commentary it’s in the Client-Centred Groups chapter. Massive thanks to @DrWMB for asking me to contribute.

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Hollie

2 years

While I’m grateful to be having a Christmas dinner while there are many that won’t or will be alone this Christmas, this is fucking depressing.

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6 years

I like it when my therapist calls me out on something and makes me think instead of deflecting or avoiding. I also hate it when my therapist calls me out on something because then I have to think instead of deflecting or avoiding. 🤨

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Hollie

4 years

Today is #WorldHearingVoicesDay bizarre how my voices lost validity after someone decided I didn’t have schizophrenia but ‘BPD’ 🤔 My voices still exist, not all the time but they lurk, they’re waiting. Accept they’re part of time and stop telling me they’re ‘pseudo’, thanks pals

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Hollie

5 years

The blog that’s taken nearly 2 years to write massive thanks to @tamar_whyte #LXP #PSW #SUI #serviceuserinvolement #livedexperience #peersupport #MH

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Hollie

4 years

While we’re focusing on #racism don’t forget the disproportionate amount of Black & Asian men given the label of schizophrenia & deemed ‘volatile & aggressive’, with no thought given to socioeconomic injustice, trauma or even symptomology. It’s not science, it’s racial profiling.

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Hollie

4 years

Or you lacked: 1) a functioning mind that allowed you to do this. 2) the disposable income to do this. 3) the support needed to be able to do this. 4) the want to because there are enough jumped up cunts in the world already doing this. Just get through. Just survive.

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Jeremy Haynes

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4 years

If you don’t come out of this quarantine with either: 1.) a new skill 2.) starting what you’ve been putting off like a new business 3.) more knowledge You didn’t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline

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4 years

Day 3 without venlafaxine. I don’t even feel human anymore. Banging headache since Monday. Nauseous. Moving is a huge effort. Everything aches and I feel like I’ve fallen off a roof. My mouth is DRY. Brain is so slow and foggy, I couldn’t remember my own postcode. Much misery.

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3 years

I do not think it’s a coincidence that after telling my psychologist about my sexuality my diagnosis changed fairly rapidly. My sexuality has been pathologised as ‘unstable sense of self’ and ‘identity disturbance’ by several professionals 🖕🖕🖕

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Did you know that people who are LGBTQ+ are disproportionately framed as personality disordered by psychiatrists? And people with a PD label are more likely to end up on schemes like SIM or criminalised. Not sure indirectly criminalising LGBTQ+ patients is flying the flag.

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@hatttiegladwell I don’t think these are signs of ‘mental illness’ I think this is a way of pathologising normal human experiences. You don’t have to be ill to think of feel any of these things. They may be magnified if you are unwell but I don’t think they could be considered exclusive.

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1 year

@adamfare1996 Ugh! I tell you what is massively over diagnosed in women… BPD. A label that frequently leads to harm. A label that obscures neurodivergence, trauma and reproductive health issues. A label that is used to pathologise and demonise women. But yeah, be worried about Autism and ADHD

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4 years

Twitter, anyone know of the legality around A&E refusing to stitch a wound that needed it after SH because of ‘repeated incidents’?

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Hollie

4 years

A guy who used to go to my youth club eons ago started talking to me on FB in the middle of the night. I don’t think this went quite how we envisaged.

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3 years

DBT facilitator that doesn’t like me said I need to be more interpersonally effective with my GP. That’s why they ignore my pain. Not stigma, not that I’m not believed or diagnostic over shadowing. It’s my fault. CPN & consultant battle with GP constantly, do they need DBT too?

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4 years

Day 4 of Venlafaxine withdrawal. The weeping has started. So desperately sad, want to die, want to sleep but can’t, muscle spasms and jerky legs, everything is a sensory nightmare.

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2 years

Somehow my ward round went from being discharged because I’m ‘avoiding my trauma’ to not being discharged, not being allowed leave over Christmas despite being an informal patient and being threatened with detention should I try to self discharge. Errr, wtf?

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10 months

Every single staff member has the potential to cause harm. Every single one. Some DO actively choose working with vulnerable and traumatised people to do just that. Stop making excuses and look at the people you’re employing. You’re complicit if you fail to acknowledge it.

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Thousands of cases across NHS and Social Care. Still we are told, "Nobody goes to work to harm". When will professionals start listening to patients. Believe us.

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2 years

I’ve met scores of professionals who forget the impact of trauma, why people’s behaviour makes sense and are utterly blind to how they are retraumatising their patients. Some actively don’t give a fuck that they are. Majority of care is NOT trauma informed. It’s not the norm.

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2 years

@MarkLRuffalo My issue with “trauma-informed” is that it insinuates that the norm (in therapy) is somehow trauma-uninformed. I’ve never met a psychiatrist or psychologist that didn’t appreciate the potential role that trauma plays in their patients’ psychopathology and address it in treatment.

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2 months

No. No one is entitled to anyone’s trust. Being mistrustful is not pathology. It’s self-preservation.

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my care coordinator just told me a symptom of my EUPD is not trusting psychiatrists/police/social workers and I’m too “paranoid and fearful”. So I have an “unstable and intense interpersonal relationship” with…the State???

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4 years

I don’t think the 2 have to be mutually exclusive. Some times there’s just no other word that will do. The ‘professionals’ I trust the most are the transparent and sweary ones. I’m not interested in your wanky corporate facade, thanks.

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Every day, these days.

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3 years

@PaedsNurseGem @scousepie @ALLIANCELGB They’re transphobic... the change in pronouns is what they’re let down about. They’d rather Eddie continued to live a life of misery and not being true to who she is for their benefit.

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3 years

Let’s get rid of the idea that building supportive and containing relationships and intensive intervention breeds ‘dependence’ for those with a ‘PD’ diagnosis but fine for any other.

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2 years

This is what impatient care ‘keeping you safe’ against your will looks like. The response to seeing this was “have you had some PRN? Oh you have, good. Just relax then” At least my eyebrows have survived.

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4 years

Love to everyone who like myself, just needs to get through the day. Whether that be putting on a facade, hiding away, or just staying in bed. Do what you need to go to get through and make it bearable. Please be kind to yourselves 💖💖

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I started Prolonged Exposure Therapy as part of DBT on Thursday. I had to talk about a horrific trauma in detail I’ve never told anyone and then listen back to it every day. It’s rough, it’s really fucking rough.

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2 years

I wrote a blog for the first time in a very long time. Where’s the grey in DBT?

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But only if your middle path is dictated to you… There was a thread on twitter a few months ago about clinicians labelling self-harm as ‘unskillful’ behaviour; this resulted in quite a heated debat…

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Hollie

1 year

I’m mostly glad I’ve avoided the psych ward this Christmas but I would prefer being knocked out all day by benzos rather than having to be around people when this time of year is a fucking nightmare for me.

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Hollie

6 years

My therapist had new chairs and a new lamp in the therapy room today. My response as I went to step into the room... “What the fuck’s gone on in here, Sonia!?”

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Hollie

5 years

@SofieHagen If you think that was good you should brace yourself for Come On Eileen.

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Hollie

2 years

I started Prolonged Exposure therapy a year ago today. I was told it would take 12-14 weeks… it took 11 months and I finished on the 4th of August. It’s almost like arbitrary time frames don’t work for complex trauma… services should do away with them.

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Hollie

2 years

I’m now officially 2 years self-harm free. There have been times when I truly believe I wouldn’t have reached crisis if I had and it would have all been over with much quicker but I’m glad I didn’t. The urge is often still there but its bite is lesser.

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Hollie

3 years

12/08/21 marked a year free of self-harm. It’s the longest I have ever gone and while I hadn’t been doing it frequently for a long time, it was still part of my life, mainly driven by crushing shame. Now 380 days - it’s weird but good. Therapist got me this.

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Hollie

5 years

Here, I’ll fix it for you: Supported someone who was incredibly distressed; people around them were worried. Was able to facilitate getting them to hospital to get the ball rolling for the help they might need. Alternatively: It’s not my place to use narratives that aren’t mine

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Hollie

4 months

This. JT does not speak for the LX community. She does not represent me. She does not represent my peers and colleagues.

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Wren

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I think what bothers me the most about Jessica Taylor is the way she uses her lived-experience of trauma to legitimise her outrageous opinions & unethical behaviour, while she simultaneously completely seperates herself from survivor communities by emphasising her professional 1/

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Hollie

3 years

This encapsulates the absolute fuckery women have been subjected to over the past WEEK. This is just one week in a lifetime of double fucking standards.

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Hollie

2 years

If you think NHS staff attitudes are piss poor towards ‘PD’ dx, spend some time with private providers. Uninformed, pathologising & at times simply hateful. WHY ARE THE NHS ENTRUSTING THEM WITH THE CARE OF VULNERABLE AND TRAUMATISED PEOPLE. I don’t see lessons being learned.

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Hollie

4 months

If JT’s hot take of schizophrenia not being a real illness and MH forensic services being too cushy (secretly writing for the Daily Mail?) doesn’t cancel them, I don’t know what will.

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Hollie

8 months

Do you know how many patients I’ve heard of being assaulted by trans people on mixed wards? 0. Do you know how many patients I know who have been groomed or sexually assaulted by staff on wards? A fuck ton.

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Hollie

4 years

Please don’t do this shit. Do you have any idea of how shaming it is? Is this supposed to make me feel better?

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Hollie

8 months

“If you stopped wasting all this energy on arguing with me maybe you’d stop wanting to kill your self” - A ‘medical psychotherapist’ who kept refusing to let me go to the toilet in group therapy because apparently I was avoiding my feelings and not just desperately for a wee.

@DrMarinaHarris

Marina Harris, PhD, HSP-P, CMPC

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8 months

What's the wildest thing you've ever heard a therapist say? 😳

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Hollie

4 years

Can everyone just stop asking me why I didn’t look a drug up over 10 years ago. 1) I was very ill & so desperate to die 2) I didn’t have a smart phone or internet access 3) I didn’t have any relationships with people that did 4) being homeless was my biggest concern

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Hollie

4 years

An incredibly strange experience to have a phone call with a top clinical psychologist who 3 years ago I was quoting in formulation assignments, in June I’ll be delivering a workshop with them 😳😳 my life is bizarre.

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Hollie

4 years

It appears that talking about being desperate to take my bra off has attracted the attention of all manner of weirdo. Let’s remember that there is NOTHING sexy about backache and no, no I do not need your help, thanks 🙄 Back in your boxes, foul beasts.

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